Beckett Ongoing
Author : Michael Krimper
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 3031420306
Beckett and Ethics
Author : Russell Smith
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441174206
Book Description
At first glance, Samuel Beckett's writing-where scenes of violence and cruelty often provide the occasion for an unremittingly bleak comedy-would seem to offer the reader few examples of ethical conduct. However, following the recent "ethical turn" in critical theory, there has been growing interest in the ethicality of Beckett's work. Following Alain Badiou's highly influential claim for Beckett as essentially an ethical thinker, it is time to ask: What is the relation between Beckett's work and the ethical? Is Beckett's work profoundly ethical in its implications, as both humanist and deconstructionist readings have insisted in their different ways? Or does Beckett's work in some way call into question the entire notion of the ethical? This provocative collection of essays seeks to map out this emerging debate in Beckett criticism. It will be a landmark contribution to an exciting new field, not only in Beckett Studies, but in literary studies and critical theory more broadly.
Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9004468382
Book Description
Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett uses ‘voice’ as a prism to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work across a range of texts, genres, and cultures. Twenty-one international contributors evaluate Beckett’s contemporary artistic legacy in relation to music, media, performance, and philosophy.
Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama
Author : W. B. Worthen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521841849
Book Description
In Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama, W. B. Worthen asks how the print form of drama bears on how we understand its dual identity.
Beckett and media
Author : Balazs Rapcsak
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526145820
Book Description
Beckett and media provides the first sustained examination of the relationship between Beckett and media technologies. The book analyses the rich variety of technical objects, semiotic arrangements, communication processes and forms of data processing that Beckett’s work so uniquely engages with, as well as those that – in historically changing configurations – determine the continuing performance, the audience reception, and the scholarly study of this work. Beckett and media draws on a variety of innovative theoretical approaches, such as media archaeology, in order to discuss Beckett’s intermedial oeuvre. As such, the book engages with Beckett as a media artist and examines the way his engagement with media technologies continues to speak to our cultural situation.
Late Modernist Style in Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas
Author : P. Fifield
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,25 MB
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137319240
Book Description
Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama.
Beckett's afterlives
Author : Jonathan Bignell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526153785
Book Description
Despite the steady rise in adaptations of Samuel Beckett’s work across the world following the author’s death in 1989, Beckett’s afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to this creative phenomenon. The collection employs interrelated concepts of adaptation, remediation and appropriation to reflect on Beckett’s own evolving approach to crossing genre boundaries and to analyse the ways in which contemporary artists across different media and diverse cultural contexts – including the UK, Europe, the USA and Latin America – continue to engage with Beckett. The book offers fresh insights into how his work has kept inspiring both practitioners and audiences in the twenty-first century, operating through methodologies and approaches that aim to facilitate and establish the study of modern-day adaptations, not just of Beckett but other (multimedia) authors as well.
Beckett and the Modern Novel
Author : John Bolin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107029848
Book Description
John Bolin challenges the notion that Beckett's fiction is best understood through philosophical or Anglo-Irish literary contexts.
Samuel Beckett in Context
Author : Anthony Uhlmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107017033
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive exploration of Beckett's historical, cultural and philosophical contexts, offering new critical insights for scholars and general readers.
Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art
Author : David Houston Jones
Publisher : Ibidem Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 32,63 MB
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783838208497
Book Description
This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a unique view of this important writer for page, stage, and screen. The volume argues that Beckett is more than an influence on contemporary art-he is, in fact, a contemporary artist, working alongside artists across disciplines in the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond. The volume explores Beckett's formal experiments in drama, prose, and other media as contemporary, parallel revisions of modernism's theoretical presuppositions congruent with trends like Minimalism and Conceptual Art. Containing interviews with and pieces by working artists, alongside contributions of scholars of literature and the visual arts, this collection offers an essential reassessment of Beckett's work. Perceiving Beckett's ongoing importance from the perspective of contemporary art practices, dominated by installation and conceptual strategies, it offers a completely new frame through which to read perennial Beckettian themes of impotence, failure, and penury. From Beckett's remains, as it were, contemporary artists find endless inspiration.
